Three Women Churning Butter Together

Three smiling women in bright headscarves and embroidered aprons work tall wooden butter churns side by side in a farmhouse kitchen, each gripping a long plunger. Their dresses are purple, red and green, trimmed with folk embroidery, and glass bangles shine on their wrists. Clay pots marked BUTTER and CURD sit on checked tablecloths in blue, red and green, with more pots and jugs painted in zigzags around the room. Garlands of orange and yellow marigolds hang over two open doorways that look out onto green trees, and bundles of herbs dry on a string. On the right a brick oven blazes with a wood fire, and a grey cat naps in the alcove for firewood below it. Wooden beams cross the ceiling above shelves of pots. The three churns stand in a row like posts, each figure framed in her own column of colour.